Village Cinema, Crown Casino, Melbourne
1st April 2012
Director: John Madden.
Cast: Judi Dench, Celia Imrie, Bill Nighy, Ronald Pickup, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson, Penelope Wilton.
This could
have been so much more than just light comedy featuring a bunch of frustrated
oldies heading to an Indian hotel for the retired and a collection of stereotypically
Indians. The quality cast do their best
with an insubstantial script. Wilkinson
is superb as the suppressed gay reunited with the love of his youth; otherwise
the backstories are left unexplored. Gentle fun that could have been so much more.
